last season was the worst season to add a new map to the map pool since because we chose what maps to play every week and because nobody wanted to risk their match by playing a map that a good chunk of the community doesn't know how to play, people never chose to play cardinal
while i'm not saying we should keep cardinal or remove it since i haven't played it at all to have an opinion on that, if we really want to try out new maps we have to go back to the old scheduling system we had 2 matches every week on the same map.
if we want to remove badlands i'd say we at least try to see prolands get played on esea for a season and see if we feel better about playing that than vanilla blands
if we def had to choose a map to replace badlands, having a 2nd koth map would be cool, reckoner is a decent map and so is logjam but most NA people have more experience playing reckoner than logjam so that's something to keep in mind